hasten
verb (used without object)
had hastened
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past perfectof hasten.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By the time April came, she had hastened her timeline to May: “It didn’t take me long before I said, ‘OK, I’m done with this.’”
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2020
When the dam was recaptured, American engineers and scientists worried that the lapse in grouting had hastened the erosion of the dam’s foundation.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2016
Scott didn’t, it bombed; but by bombing, it helped bring about the death of the anti-auteur era in 1990, no less than Heaven’s Gate had hastened the death of the auteur era in 1980.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2012
Moralists believed that female bathers corrupted men and had hastened the fall of the Roman Empire.
From Washington Post
A rapid two hours' gallop enabled him to overtake the carriage of his wife, who, according to his directions, had hastened without stopping towards Transylvania with the sole escort of the old horseman.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r
